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The New York Times ran one of the most biased articles about the conflict by a mainstream newspaper.

“The suffering of Palestinians, which does not compare to the suffering of many other groups, has been largely inflicted by themselves. They could have had a state, with no occupation, if they had accepted the Peel Commission Report of 1938, the United Nations Partition of 1947, the Camp David Summit deal of 2000, or the Ehud Olmert offer of 2008. They rejected all these offers, responding with violence and terrorism, because doing so would have required them to accept Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people, something they are unwilling to do even today.

I know because I asked Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that question directly and he said no. The Palestinian leadership indeed has always wanted there not to be a Jewish state more than it has wanted there to be a Palestinian state. The Palestinian issue is not "one of the great moral challenges of our time," as Alexander insists in her column. It is a complex, nuanced, pragmatic problem, with fault on all sides. The issue could be solved if Palestinian leaders were prepared to accept the "painful compromises" that Israeli leaders have already agreed to accept.”

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Consider the front page story in the New York Times Sunday Review, which singled out the Palestinian issue as "one of the great moral challenges of our time" -- ignoring Syria, Ukraine, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, Tibet, Cyprus and many far greater

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Abbas and the Palestinian leadership are clearly trying to drag Israel into a religious conflict with all Muslims, not only Palestinians. The Temple Mount has become their favorite platform for disseminating blood libels.... If anyone is defiling the

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To single out only the "Jew among nations," and not the dozens of far more serious violators of human rights is bigotry pure and simple, and those who support BDS only against Israel are guilty of bigotry. What is unacceptable is discriminatory actions,

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The Trump administration has restored the United States to the position of honest broker – emphasis on “honest” – and taken a hatchet to a series of fantasies underlying the notion of an Israeli-Palestinian “peace process.”

The entire framework for the so called “peace process” has been built on a series of lies, false assumptions, and wishful thinking. The United States is changing that. Finally.

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These young adults affiliated with IfNotNow chose to feign ignorance. I’m conflicted. On the one hand, I am hesitant to engage with you because a response would give your rhetoric a degree of legitimacy. On the other hand, your rhetoric is so presumptiv

Nazi politician and propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels once advised: “When one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. [One should] keep up the lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.”

This is one of the best opinion pieces about the Palestinian issue I have read in a very long time...

“Jews do not refer to the slaughters, pogroms, property confiscation and deportations they endured in Arab countries as nakbas (the Arabic word for catastrophes). Instead of using these slaughters and expulsions to drive their narrative, Jewish Israelis have chosen to build a country. None of them, including the Holocaust survivors who (to put it mildly) had the right to be heart-wrenchingly furious after losing most of their families, have ever returned to their countries of origin to throw bombs, stab civilians, run down people with vans, and commit other acts of terror and revenge.”

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This is why Krauthammer is a genius. From 2002 (and just as incredibly perceptive today):

“Jews can be tolerated, even accepted, but they must know their place. Jews are fine so long as they are powerless, passive and picturesque. What is intolerable is Jewish assertiveness, the Jewish refusal to accept victimhood.”

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Palestinian terrorist group Hamas is arranging for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to march on the Israeli-Palestinian border next Monday and Tuesday. Addressing Palestinians in Gaza, Hamas' leader there portrayed the protests as a peaceful effort t

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"Adam Armoush is a 21-year-old Israeli Arab who, on a recent outing in Berlin, donned a yarmulke to test a friend’s contention that it was unsafe to do so in Germany. On Tuesday he was assaulted in broad daylight by a Syrian asylum-seeker who whipped him with a belt for being “yahudi” — Arabic for Jew."

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Moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem will help, but the best way to restore order in the Middle East would be to stop sending aid to Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian government ...

"the Palestinian cause has in no small part devolved from instrument of civilizational conflict to instrument of ordinary grift, a phony jihad used to fortify the alliance between fanatics and financial interests that is the default model of government throughout much of the Muslim Middle East....The capital of Israel is in Jerusalem, and there is no serious proposal under which it is going to move to Tel Aviv or elsewhere. Even should East Jerusalem come to be generally recognized as the capital of the Palestinian state, such as it is, that is not going to change the fact that the west of the city is and long has been Israeli territory,"

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Fake news infected the body politic this week as liberals lost their minds over President Trump’s falsely-labeled “Muslim ban,” which bars refugees from seven high-risk Muslim majority countries (previously identified by President Obama’s own Depa

Integrity and honesty are no longer values on the left or right.

"Persecuted, raped, and killed, Jews have been purged from Islamic lands for centuries, thanks to the imperial aspirations of imams, mullahs, warlords, and sultans.

To this day, Israeli Jews are forbidden from entering 16 Muslim countries. Six of the seven states on Trump’s “ban” currently bar Israeli Jews. We’re still waiting on protests condemning the institutionalized and permanent Jewish ban across the Islamic world."

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Tomorrow the Democratic National Committee (DNC) will have to choose the direction of the Democratic Party, as well as its...

So what now Mr. Dershowitz? Hasn't the democratic party made it extremely clear that it is not a home for anyone who sincerely loves Israel and decries bigotry? The fact that Ellison came so close to the chairmanship, and was enthusiastically made deputy chairman, should disqualify the party as viable for any Jew with pride or American who truly believes in the concept of a TRULY pluralistic nation. .

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According to the most popular and largely dominant theory of why Muslims become radicalized, the more they feel discriminated against, the more likely they are to engage in terrorism and join terrorist groups such as Islamic State. This theory claims to b

"So much discrimination, unique among the nations, and yet Israel somehow does not turn into a terrorist state. On the contrary, Israel is almost always a first responder when natural disasters strike, often offering help to those very states who bully it at every given opportunity. In addition, Israel spends most of its energy on innovations that benefit not only Israel but the world.

Similarly, the theory of radicalization does not apply to those Christians and others who are oppressed and under constant attack — frequently from Muslims — around the world. Tibetans have not turned into ax-wielding murderers because China has occupied their country for over half a century, nor have the Biafrans and other non-Muslim Nigerians who are ruthlessly murdered in Nigeria by government troops and Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen terrorists begun to bomb or hack to death their opponents in response.

That is because the theory is utterly false. If it had an iota of merit, we would see others reacting in the same way, given the same — and at times much worse — circumstances. They do not. Nevertheless, the theory persists."

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On the most important vote affecting Israel’s security in a generation, Mr. Booker has failed.

The headline isn't entirely accurate: he only admitted his blunder through his own subsequent action. Still, how can the democrats who voted for this live with themselves? Belatedly passing legislation to "fix" the biggest foreign policy blunder of the last 70 years isn't enough. Every single one of them needs to be made to pay a political price for playing politics with the lives of every single person in Israel.

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In The Wall Street Journal, Global View columnist Bret Stephens on the truth about why Palestinians have been seized by their present blood lust.

It is the Palestinians who are acting psychotically, not the Jews (and no there is no moral relativism here). This explains why. If you are a thinking person, you should read it.

Palestine: The Psychotic StageThe truth about why Palestinians have been seized by their present blood lust.

If you’ve been following the news from Israel, you might have the impression that “violence” is killing a lot of people. As in this headline: “Palestinian Killed As Violence Continues.” Or this first paragraph: “Violence and bloodshed radiating outward from flash points in Jerusalem and the West Bank appear to be shifting gears and expanding, with Gaza increasingly drawn in.”

Read further, and you might also get a sense of who, according to Western media, is perpetrating “violence.” As in: “Two Palestinian Teenagers Shot by Israeli Police,” according to one headline. Or: “Israeli Retaliatory Strike in Gaza Kills Woman and Child, Palestinians Say,” according to another.

Such was the media’s way of describing two weeks of Palestinian assaults that began when Hamas killed a Jewish couple as they were driving with their four children in the northern West Bank. Two days later, a Palestinian teenager stabbed two Israelis to death in Jerusalem’s Old City, and also slashed a woman and a 2-year-old boy. Hours later, another knife-wielding Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli police after he slashed a 15-year-old Israeli boy in the chest and back.

Other Palestinian attacks include the stabbing of two elderly Israeli men and an assault with a vegetable peeler on a 14-year-old. On Sunday, an Arab-Israeli man ran over a 19-year-old female soldier at a bus stop, then got out of his car, stabbed her, and attacked two men and a 14-year-old girl. Several attacks have been carried out by women, including a failed suicide bombing.

Regarding the causes of this Palestinian blood fetish, Western news organizations have resorted to familiar tropes. Palestinians have despaired at the results of the peace process—never mind that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas just declared the Oslo Accords null and void. Israeli politicians want to allow Jews to pray atop the Temple Mount—never mind that Benjamin Netanyahu denies it and has barred Israeli politicians from visiting the site. There’s always the hoary “cycle of violence” formula that holds nobody and everybody accountable at one and the same time.

Left out of most of these stories is some sense of what Palestinian leaders have to say. As in these nuggets from a speech Mr. Abbas gave last month: “Al Aqsa Mosque is ours. They [Jews] have no right to defile it with their filthy feet.” And: “We bless every drop of blood spilled for Jerusalem, which is clean and pure blood, blood spilled for Allah.”

Then there is the goading of the Muslim clergy. “Brothers, this is why we recall today what Allah did to the Jews,” one Gaza imam said Friday in a recorded address, translated by the invaluable Middle East Media Research Institute, or Memri. “Today, we realize why the Jews build walls. They do not do this to stop missiles but to prevent the slitting of their throats.”

Then, brandishing a six-inch knife, he added: “My brother in the West Bank: Stab!”

Imagine if a white minister in, say, South Carolina preached this way about African-Americans, knife and all: Would the news media be supine in reporting it? Would we get “both sides” journalism of the kind that is pro forma when it comes to Israelis and Palestinians, with lengthy pieces explaining—and implicitly justifying—the minister’s sundry grievances, his sense that his country has been stolen from him?

And would this be supplemented by the usual fake math of moral opprobrium, which is the stock-in-trade of reporters covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? In the Middle East version, a higher Palestinian death toll suggests greater Israeli culpability. (Perhaps Israeli paramedics should stop treating stabbing victims to help even the score.) In a U.S. version, should the higher in

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Even in the matter of "slavery," the Torah works toward the natural and ideal condition of each and every individual person, which is freedom. In the Torah system, if a master strikes his slave and wounds him, the slave goes free. If a master ha

This is an excellent OpEd, please share it. He makes some excellent points about the nature of democracy.

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Last week an issue that has simmered for some time in private conversations burst out into the open—in a very unpleasant way. At the Jerusalem Post conference in New York on June 7, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew offered a stirring defense of the White Ho

"Obama is correct in believing that Jewish politics are often motivated by fear, which can range from the existential fear of mass extermination to the more prosaic fear of looking shabby in front of the goyim." Agreed.

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Frida Ghitis: Diplomacy sometimes creates moments of delusion. That fact is on clear display when it comes to how the United States treats Jerusalem.

There will be a lot of people who will be very surprised to see this on CNN. What far too many people don't understand is that the portion of Jerusalem where the government is located has never been disputed. The American government's position toward Israel's capital has been consistently absurd.

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In late March 2015, a New Yorker article concluded that despite the difficult economic conditions of many Israelis, the Israeli public by and large did not trust Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni, who head the Zionist Union political bloc, with Israel’s secu

Agreed. JStreet has many many well meaning people in its ranks, but what they espouse is extremely dangerous and potentially disastrous.

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Is US President Barack Obama an anti-Semite? This question has lingered in the air since his first presidential bid in 2008. It first arose due to the anti-Semitic sermons that Jeremiah Wright, his pastor for more than 20 years, made as Obama and his family sat in the pews.

Is President Obama Antisemitic? Read this excellent OpEd and then decide. Her argument is very persuasive.

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On a number of occasions during the negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, the Israeli government has appealed to the United States and its allies to demand a change in Tehran’s aggressive behavior. If Iran wishes to be treated as a normal state, Israel has said, then it should start acting like one. Unfortunately, these appeals have been summarily dismissed.

I had the opportunity to interview Sharansky once. He is a very interesting and perceptive individual (and that is an understatement).

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“Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.” —Abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass On one sunny August afternoon in Boston in 2014, I made my way through the Boston Common public park and watched from a distance as people bega

Chloe Valdary is not Jewish and is one of the brightest lights in America today. This is a must read.

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Of all the idiocies uttered in reaction to Benjamin Netanyahu’s stunning election victory, none is more ubiquitous than the idea that peace prospects are now dead because Netanyahu has declared that there will be no Palestinian state while he is Israel’s prime minister. Benjamin Netanyahu’s reelection does not portend more strife in the Middle East.

Another stunningly clear headed and insightful piece by Charles Krauthammer.

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Sometimes a speech is just a speech. Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech about Iran policy on March 3 will not be his first address to Congress. It will make familiar, if important, arguments. One might assume that, like the vast majority of speeches, it would soon be overtaken by events in Israel and the United States and the world.

William Kristol draws a parallel between this speech and Churchill's in December 1941. Interesting take on both Obama and Netnayahu.

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Is there any dirty job for the Obama administration that Susan Rice is not prepared to do? Need someone to fraudulently blame the murder of an American ambassador in Libya on a stupid film? Send Rice to the Sunday morning talk shows.

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No responsible PM could refuse invitation to speak to Congress on issue that threatens israel's survival, he tells visiting US Jewish leaders

So to recap: the Speaker of the House of the United States issues an invitation to the PM of, arguably, our closest ally to speak before the Congress. Keep in mind, this is something that has happened many times before, including with Netanyahu and there has been no controversy. Then the Obama administration manufactured (as the New York Times later admitted) a story about Netanyahu not informing the WH before he accepted the invitation (in fact, Bibi accepted the invitation only after he knew that Obama was aware of it). The Obama administration then also issued a statement saying that the POTUS would not meet with Netanyahu because of a supposed policy of not meeting with heads of state immediately before an election. Then, that turned out to be false as well. But even after ALL of that, the White House may be keeping Israel in the dark about the Iranian negotiations because it is concerned that Netanyahu is playing politics with the issue??? Whether you want to call it hubris, chutzpah or arrogance, the entire thing us mind numbingly aggravating and the stakes are so high that nobody, NOBODY, should be playing politics with this.

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The Obama administration is going all out to see that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is defeated, but the campaign of veiled threats and anonymous leaks is backfiring: Instead of sinking in the polls, Netanyahu is rising.Obama's offensive against Netanyahu isn’t working.

This doesn't surprise me. Some people tried really hard to characterize Netanyahu's visit as being highly unusual, or that the speech itself (and not merely how the invitation was issued) as being a violation or protocol. Both assertions were very transparently false and people saw through it very quickly and resented it. Netanyahu is also perceived as the strongest candidate in terms of defense and at a tumultuous time like this, that would be difficult for any opponent to overcome.,

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It is fitting and proper--indeed essential for our very security--that Speaker John Boehner has extended an invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu to address Congress on Iran and its efforts to develop nuclear weapons and

I completely agree with Forbes here. It is beyond me how people oppose ANYONE who is sincerely committed to ensuring that Iran does not get Nukes.

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To the Left, Netanyahu’s trip to Paris was a public relations disaster for Israel.

The left's view of Netanyahu's trip was astonishing. It amounted to this: "France doesn't like Netanyahu and we are embarrassed by that because we care more about France's opinion than out own country."

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Opinion: Analysis: Paris terror attacks worsen the situation of secular French Jews, many of whom still believe in the Republic's universal values and feel that France, rather than Israel, is their national home.

How do these people NOT see the irony in this? I get that France is their country and they don't want to be intimidated. That is admirable. I feel the same way about the United States. But, at this point they are actually in danger. Don't they understand that their attitude, no matter how understandable, is EXACTLY that of the German Jews in Germany during the early 30s? They never thought that anything would happen to them either because they assumed that their countrymen would ultimately see them as German first. Obviously, the end result of that was tragic.

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As thousands of Israelis waited for the snow to fall yesterday in Jerusalem, parents found themselves attempting to entertain......

Exactly. As badly as I feel for the French right now, and I feel horrible, I can't help but be dismayed at the utter disconnect between the way the world reacted to this vs. the way it reacted to the Jewish synagogue attack last month, or any number of similar attacks on Jews over the past year.

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Netanyahu persuaded Nigeria to abstain as UN Security Council rejected Palestinian statehood, but could only muster US and Australian opposition, and the French let Israel down

Unfortunately, I have to agree with this. Israel's victory is definitely muted by the fact that only Australia and the US supported it in this thing. On another note, Jews should be organizing a massive economic boycott of France.

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There are wars, there are terrorist attacks and there are pogroms. What occurred this week at the Har Nof Synagogue in Israel was age-old anti-Semitism. It was not political, it was not

This is spot on. We cannot continue to pretend that what we are experiencing isn't exactly what our ancestors experienced in terms of pogroms. That is what the recent attacks were. Not only that, we have to do a better job of refusing to accept, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, the excuse that what we are seeing is anti-Zionism and not antisemitism. They are one in the same and they always have been.

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Opinion, Ben-Dror Yemini: Op-ed: For decades, the Palestinians have nurtured the ethos of the Nakba while Israel chose to downplay the persecutions and expulsion of the Arab Jews. It is time to set the record straight.

There is oh so much hand wringing about the supposed expulsion of Arabs from Israel (I saw "supposed" because many remained behind and are now full citizens). The world seems not to care, or know, about the millions of Jews forcefully ejected from Arab lands that they had lived in for centuries (many dating to antiquity-centuries BEFORE Islam even existed).

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Last week, among other things, I was told by a Palestinian student visiting FSU that the 67 innocent Jews murdered in Hebron in 1929 were actually not Jews, but Arabs. I was also told I am less of a person than Hitler because at least Hitler had the chu

How have we as a community allowed the situation to deteriorate like this and where are the outcries from decent people?

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Who better to respond to Abbas’s blood libel than the world’s foremost voice against genocide, Elie Wiesel?

Yes, yes and yes. WHY do so many Jewish organizations become so cowardly in the face of ridiculous claims by the people that want to destroy Israel? Why do we, as a people, seem to continue to believe that if we are just "nice enough" all of the negativity will go away? History proves that the exact opposite is true.

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Perhaps it is time for someone to pull Mogherini aside and whisper into her ear: before you start offering unsolicited advice to Israel, you might want to get your own hypocritical house in order.

More European hypocrisy. NOTHING has changed. This is why it troubles me that so many Americans continue to believe that Europe is somehow more enlightened and sophisticated than the United States. As long as they continue to maintain a medieval sense of antisemitism, they are not.

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You know you’ve seen it all when an American administration is reduced to calling a world leader – and a primary ally – a “Chickensh**t.”

I disagree with some of this. I think that Obama's utter refusal to acknowledge the deaths of three Israeli boys in a speech he gave hours after the news that they had been murdered broke, and his intense disrespect for Israel's head of state make the accusation of antisemitism somewhat credible. I do agree with many of the sentiments here though.

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Imagine if Jerusalem authorities forbade Palestinians (those with permanent Israeli residency) from moving into Jewish neighborhoods in west Jerusalem, citing the need to protect the delicate demographic balance of the capital, and keep such neighborhoods

I agree with ll of this, but the contention that the Rabbis who forbade the sale of land to Palestinians were "racist." For one thing, Arabs are not a separate race. For another, I would need to see evidence that it wasn't purely a security concern. If it was something darker: it was 100% wrong.

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Can we talk? Saturday, Yom Kippur, marks thirty days since Joan Rivers' passing. She may not have been a rabbi......

"Asked when she was planning on visiting Israel, she said, “I called the embassy. Sooner the better. I’m outta here. I plan to get a gun and stand next to anyone that throws a rocket near my cousins’ house.” The world misses you Joan Rivers.

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Some years ago, I was seated at dinner next to a British law professor, whom my husband, also a law professor, had invited to a conference that he’d organized. The conversation soon turned, as conversation often does among professional intellectuals, to Israel...

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Some in the international community will want to signal to the world’s Muslims that they have nothing against them and will try to differentiate between the bad evil folks, such as Islamic State and the good evil folks: Hamas.

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By mistreating the Palestinians and depriving them of their basic rights, Jordan and other Arab countries are driving them into the open arms of extremists, especially Islamist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. Jordan, Lebanon and Syria

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It was a moving day. Almost too moving. And I don’t know how to quite process the emotions. Having arrived with my family in Israel, we traveled to Sderot, the beleaguered city of twenty-five thousand in Southern Israel which Hamas uses for target practice. More than twelve thousand deadly rockets have been fired at its inhabitants. Every home has a bomb shelter.

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Give me a yellow star. A dreary, cloth patch sewn in the shape of a Star of David that every Jew was forced to wear in Nazi Germany along with every country the Germans conquered; every country allied with Germany ; every culture looking to expose the hated Jew.

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Imagine that you are a Jew, and that you are president of the United States. Your security adviser has just whispered in your ear that 200 Jewish girls in Africa have been kidnapped and are being threatened with rape.

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Empathizing with the underdog is a natural human instinct. When we see a little David facing off against a mighty Goliath, our hearts go out to the little guy. But what happens when Goliath pretends to be David and then accuses David of really being Goliath?

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To be sure, there have been a few testy moments between Washington and Jerusalem during the tension of war, but they shouldn't be confused, not for a moment, with the strength of this enduring, unique, and mutually beneficial relationship....

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I am an Israeli, I am an American, and I am an artist. As such, the following topic is especially irritating to me. As the war in Gaza breaks yet again, we have seen an influx of artists and celebrities chipping in with their personal two cents. It can come in the shape of Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz signing an open letter condemning Israeli ‘genocide’: a curiously indefensible position given the tremendous Palestinian population growth since 1967, not to mention Israeli provision of aid and medical care (even in this present war) to wounded Palestinian civilians. Or it can come in the form of a popular catch phrase such as #FreePalestine, tweeted from the likes of Rihanna and Selena Gomez.

Yes! Yes! And: Yes! Having been immersed in the world of artists myself, I know how intensely frustrating it can be to watch them support anyone that they consider to be the underdog-not matter what the facts, history or reality of a situation is.

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They come from every corner of the country—investment bankers, farmers, computer geeks, jazz drummers, botany professors, car mechanics—leaving their jobs and their families. They put on uniforms that are invariably too tight or too baggy, sign out their gear and guns. Then, scrambling onto military vehicles, 70,000 reservists—women and men—join the young conscripts of what is proportionally the world's largest citizen army. They all know that some of them will return maimed or not at all. And yet, without hesitation or (for the most part) complaint, proudly responding to the call-up, Israelis stand ready to defend their nation. They risk their lives for an idea.

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John Kerry is upset by heavy criticism from Israelis — left, right and center — of his recent cease-fire diplomacy. But that’s only half the story. More significant is the consternation of America’s Arab partners, starting with the president of the Palestinian Authority. Mahmoud Abbas was stunned that Kerry would fly off to Paris to negotiate with Hamas allies Qatar and Turkey in talks that excluded the PA and Egypt.

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Israel privately says the UN's Palestinian refugee organization -- now a prominent factor in the war with Hamas -- is biased, hostile, and shouldn't exist at all. So why doesn't Israel want it abolished?

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This week, two Americans serving in the Israel Defense Forces were killed in Gaza. Max Steinberg, from Los Angeles, was 24. Sean Carmeli, 22, came from Texas. Both were Lone Soldiers—Israel’s term for troops with no immediate family living in Israel. I used to be one of them.

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The student organization Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is prominent on many college campuses, preaching a mantra of “Freeing Palestine.” It masquerades as though it were a civil rights group when it is not. Indeed, as an African-American, I

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Yarmouk was home to the largest Palestinian refugee community in the country before the conflict began. 180,000 Palestinian civilians called it home. Now only 20,000 remain. Food and medical supplies are routinely denied entry and starvation is one of the three main causes of death. Recently, in the Jarabulus area, 22 people were killed and thrown into the streets to instill fear in the population. Some of them were children.

Most people aren't aware of the fact that Arab countries maintain what are essentially "refugee" camps for Palestinians. Since 1948 they have maintained them as a an exploitative tool. Unlike Israel, who absorbed every Jewish community forced to leave Arab lands, Arab countries have refused to absorb people displaced by wars (wars started, by the way, by the Arabs).

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I ask the enraged critics of Israel's defensive responses to Hamas: Would you have us not respond to this monstrosity? Do you think it's not worth losing the PR battle to retain our humanity and save as many lives as possible?...

This is an astonishing piece. A self described "progressive American rabbi " comes out in defense of Israel unequivocally, boldly and forcefully.

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A friend recently asked me, “why don’t you trade places with the Palestinians for a while, to get a truer feeling for their position?” It was an interesting proposition, but I needed more clarity. Which Palestinians should I trade places with?

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Just over a year since the tragic Boston bombing, which saw four people murdered and hundreds injured, pro-terror sympathy has made its way to the streets of Boston. Three rallies, all claiming to rally support for the victims of Gaza, quickly revealed th